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...Consolidated Vultee directors elected General Joseph T. McNarney (ret.), 59, as their president. McNarney was top U.S. general in the Mediterranean theater in 1944-45, later commanded all U.S. forces in Europe. After war's end, he was boss of procurement and research for the Air Force at Wright Field, and from 1949 to his retirement this year, he was chairman of the Department of Defense Management Committee, a top-level military coordinating group. At Convair he succeeds La Motte Turck Cohu, 56, president since 1948, who becomes vice chairman of the board under Chairman Floyd Odlum...
...thing is fairly certain. There is no defensive weapon in sight against rockets like the V-2 that strike down from above the atmosphere at perhaps 3,500 m.p.h. General McNarney admits that a missile fast enough and clever enough to intercept them is years away...
...says McNarney, the U.S. will presently develop a fighter that can lick the B-36. Soon thereafter it will have a bomber (probably the Boeing long-range, all-jet XB-52) that will be better than the B-36. Other nations, presumably, are working along the same lines. No one is sure where the advantage will rest when the new airplanes appear...
...basic weapon for air combat, thinks McNarney, will be the "air-to-air" rocket. It will not have to be aimed very accurately, for it will "home" on its target (probably attracted by radar-wave reflections), chase after it at supersonic speed, and explode by a proximity fuse when it gets within killing range. Such rockets presumably will be used by bombers for defense as well as by fighters for attack. Their development into "operational missiles," says McNarney, will not take long...
Still in the experimental stage are offensive guided missiles which may one day replace bombers. General McNarney says that the U.S. can now build a missile that can fly 5,000 miles and hit within 15 or 20 miles of a given target. "That's not close enough," he admits, "and it's too expensive." Another high authority believes that even this very moderate accuracy is "only a pipe dream...